It's been that way at Perkins for some time. I don't go there, never have 
but know plenty of people who have and it's been a good 15 years or 20 years 
since being blind was all it took. Funny, I know plenty who went there, few 
if any who liked it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Commercial mobiles and HT's


> Hi Eric.  What Braille are you producing?  Is this for blind kids in
> California who attend public schools?  A friend told me some years ago 
> that
> none of the kids at Perkins now are singly handicapped.  That is, kids 
> like
> us attending Perkins had one being blind.  I bet if we visited Perkins
> during the normal school year that we wouldn't recognize it.  I went to a
> few alumni weekends while I was still living in Cambridge, mostly because
> Ted Filteau would go to ring the big bells.  I liked going up in the tower
> to the bell room.  The air compressor for the chapel organ was also up
> there.  Eric, do you remember the big room in the wood shop corridor where
> they stored chairs being re-caned?  Well, there was a panel mounted on one
> of the walls in that big area that had a screen cage around it.  There was
> an opening big enough to fit your hand thru.  Inside that caged panel was 
> a
> couple dozen buttons.  The buttons operated the bells for both the upper 
> and
> lower schools.  That panel was used to signal fire drills for example.  I
> used to stick my hand in there and press all sorts of buttons to ring 
> bells
> all over the place.  I especially liked when I could hear bells that were
> close enough to be heard from in there.  After screwing around for 5 
> minutes
> or so, we would get away from the panel, but hang around in the general 
> area
> so that we could hear the security guards and such trying to figure out 
> why
> the bells were ringing on and off all over the campus.  Great fun!
>
> 73
> handicap, but I guess now you have to have some other impairment besides
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Eric Clegg
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Commercial mobiles and HT's
>
> Hi Alan,
> I went to two schools for the blind.
>
> The Ontario School for the Blind in Brantford, ONT and Perkins of course.
>
> The school in Canada was wonderful.
>
> I really didn't like Perkins at all.
>
> Having come from South America I think my parents wasted their money 
> sending
> me there.
>
> I'm glad you were able to keep souvenirs of that demolition derby.
>
> Well I'm off to another week of Braille production for the state.
>
> Will write more later,
>
> 73,
>
> Eric
> KU3I